Ecological laws of perceiving and acting: in reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn (1981).

Ecological laws of perceiving and acting: In reply to Fsdor and Pylyshyn (1981)*

This paper is both a reply to Fodor and Pt_lyshyn (198 1) and a systematic explication of one of Gibson’s (1979) basic claims, namely, that there are ecological laws relating organisms tc the a.ffordances of the environment. Gibson’s theory of affordances holds great promise for psychology for a number of reasons: it provides a framework for the precise formulation and testing of hypotheses abo...

Defining and Acting on Global Health: The Case of Japan and the Refugee Crisis

What counts as global health? There has been limited discourse to date on the ways in which country-level contexts may shape positioning in global health agendas. By reviewing Japan’s response to the refugee crisis, we demonstrate a clash between rhetoric and action on global responsibility, and suggest that cultural and historical factors may be related to the ways of perceiving and acting upo...

Semantic systematicity and context in connectionist networks

Fodor and Pylyshyn argued that connectionist models could not be used to exhibit and explain a phenomenon that they termed systematicity, and which they explained by possession of compositional syntax and semantics for mental representations and structure sensitivity of mental processes. This inability of connectionist models, they argued, was particularly serious since it meant that these mode...

Connectionism and cognitive architecture: a critical analysis.

Critical study of different approaches in jurisprudential criteria of Islamic State laws

One of the most important requirements for the realization of the Islamic state is to base the legal system of the Islamic state on religious principles and criteria. The debate about the religious criterion of the Islamic state law has been going on for a long time, from the constitutional era to the present day, and it has been intertwined with the basic question of the necessity and what is ...